Draft-gearing.



No. 838,379. PATENTED DEC. 11, 1906.

s. P BUSH.

DRAFT GEARING.

APPLICATION FILED MAIYQ, 1906.

INVENTOR ITIVESSES M I -5f THE NORRIS PETERS cu WASHINGTON, o. c.

UNITE STATES PATENT orrion SAMUEL P. BUSH, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

DRAFT-GEARING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 11, 1906.

T0 on whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL P. Busn, a resident of Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Draft- Gearing; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

draft-gearing, the object of the invention being to so construct the draft-yoke as to enable the coupler to be inserted and withdrawn without disturbing the other parts of the draft-gearing; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, illustrating my im provements. Fig. 2 is a View in cross-section on the line m 00 thereof, and Figs. 3, 4, 5,

and 6 are views illustrating a modification.

1 represents the draw-bar of a coupler, having an enlarged oblong butt-end 2, as is customary.

3 represents my improved draft yoke,

which comprises a single integral casting having parallel top and bottom members connected by a curved rear end and provided with a hood 4 at its forward or outer end. This hood is of the same shape incross-section as the butt-end of the coupler to receive the latter, and the hood 4 and butt-end of the coupler are made with alined openings to receive a key 5 to secure the coupler to the yoke.

By this construction it will be observed that the coupler can be removed and replaced without in any manner disturbing the draft-gearing on the car, as the forward follower or friction-piece will engage the yokeh tod when the coupler is removed, and thereby prevent any separation of the operative r movable parts of the draft-gearing.

In the modification illustrated in Figs. 3, 5, and 6, the hood 6 at the forward end of of the invention, such as will enable others My invention relates to improvements in I the yoke is of circular or cylindrical form and made with internal oppositely-disposed lugs 7. The butt-end of the coupler is pro vided at top and bottom, adjacent to its enlarged rear end, with lugs or enlargements 8, forming grooves or recesses 9 to receive the lugs 7 of the yoke and secure the parts together. To secure the coupler in the yoke, the coupler is turned on its side and its buttend inserted in the hood 6 of the yoke and then turned to bring its grooves or recesses 9 at top and bottom over the lugs 7 and receive the latter in the grooves or recesses to secure the coupler and yoke together without the employment of any third part.

Slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A yoke for draft-gearing, comprising top and bottom members, rear end, and hooded forward end, constructed to receive a coupler, and all cast integral, and means for secluring a coupler in the hooded end of the o (e. y 2. A yoke for draft-gearing, having a hooded forward end to receive the butt-end of a coupler, and said hooded end having alined openings to receive a key passed through the butt-end of the coupler.

3. A yoke for draft-gearing having an integral hood at its forward end of a shape to fit and receive the butt-end of a coupler, and a key to enter alined openings in the hood and coupler and secure them together.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL P. BUSH. l/Vitnesses:

Gno. G. MERRING, F. G. BENNETT.

DISCLAIMER- 838,379.Samuel P. Bush, Columbus, Ohio. DRAFT-GEARING. Patent dated December 11, 1906. Disclaimer filed November 2, 1914, by the patentee.

Enters this disclaimer- To the construction disclosed in Figures 3, 1, 5, and 6 of the drawings of said patent, all that part of the specification of said patent which refers specifically to the said figures of the drawing, to wit:

and Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6 are views illustrating a modification, and also the following:

In the modification illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 the hood 6 at the forward end of the yoke is of circular or cylindrical form and made with internal oppositelydisposed lugs 7 The butt end of the coupler is provided top and bottom, adjacent to its enlarged rear end, with lugs or enlargements 8, forming grooves or recesses 9 to receive the lugs 7 of the yoke and secure the parts together. To secure the coupler in the yoke, the coupler is turned on its side and its butt-end inserted in the hood 6 of the yoke and then turned to bring its grooves or recesses 9 at top and' bottom over the lugs 7 and receive the latter in the grooves or recesses to secure the coupler and yoke together Without the employment of any third part, and also to the first claim, which reads as follows:

1. A yoke for draft-gearing, comprising top and bottom members, rear end, and hooded forward end, constructed to receive a coupler, and all cast integral, and means for securing a coupler in the hooded end of the yoke.

[Oficz'al Gazette, November 17, 1914.] 

